This symposium will examine art, commerce, politics, history, and performance on both sides of the Pacific in a wide-ranging event. Speakers including Ruben Gallo, Tatiana Flores, Minerva Cuevas, and Jesusa Rodriguez will address Mexico City. Winnie Wong (Rhetoric) and Margaret Crawford (Architecture) will present their students’ research on urban art villages in China’s Pearl River […]

An exhibition exploring Two Cities, Four Villages, and the Uses of Art in the Pearl River Delta in Southern China. Curated by Margaret Crawford and Winnie Wong. Featuring works by the Art+Village+City Research Studio UC Berkeley, Shimura Bros. & Olafur Eliasson, Sascha Pohle, and Josa Figueroa.

Mapping the Conversation The Questioning Aesthetics Symposium takes up the term aesthetics as both the subject and object of critique, and as a way to explore and expand new forms of aesthetics research in many disciplines. In relation to the evolving conversations around participation, computing and the contemporary, scholars and artists from around the US will come […]

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The Arts Research Center at University of California, Berkeley is a think tank for the arts, a genuinely interdisciplinary space that brings people together--from across the university and beyond the university, from across the arts and beyond the arts--for unexpected conversations, collaborations, and community-building.